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G. F. SKINNER.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND VALVE FOB. WELL BUGKETS.

No. 300,147. Patentd June 10, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFEICE.

GEORGE F. SKINNER, OF SUPERIOR, NEBRASKA.

COMBINED BOTTOM AND VALVE FO R WELL-BUCKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,147, dated June 10, 1884.

Application filed July 6, 18%3.

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citizen of the United States, residing at Superior, in the county of Nuckolls and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Combined Bottom and Valve for Well-Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to valves for well-buckets; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described and set forth. p

In the accompanying drawing the figure represents a section of a portion of a bucketbottomhaving my improvement applied thereto.

A is the bucket-bottom, having a central perforation or opening, a. i

B is a valve resting on the upper portion of the bottom A, so. as to cover the opening a C is an inverted U shaped metal yoke, the central horizontal portion, 0, of which is perforated for the passage of screws (dotted lines) to secure the said yoke O to the under side of the valve 13. The vertical portions d extend down through the central opening, each in proximity to the side of the said opening, and when the valve B rests on the bucket-bottom the said portions (2 extend a short distance beyond the lower face of said bottom, and are then bent outward to form horizontal extensions e.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that when the bucket is lowered in the well the water therein will raise the valve B from the opening a, asshown in dotted lines, the horizontal extensions limiting the vertical movement of the valve.

When it is desired to remove the valve for any purpose, it is only necessary to bend the extensions 6 on a line with the portions d. Thus it will be obvious that my improvement embodies simplicity of construction and cheapness of production.

I am aware that it has hitherto been pro posed to attach the valves to well-buckets to permit a vertical play of said valve; but in all such instances openings were made in the bucket-bottom in addition to the main one, the valve had to be perforated, and nuts removed before the valve could be taken from position.

I claim- V v The combination, in a well-bucket, of a bottom having a central perforation, a valve-disk above the bottom to close the opening, and a |..I-shaped yoke secured thereto, and having vertical portions depending through said opening near the sides thereof, and' bent horizontally at their lower ends, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE F. SKINNER.

WVitnesses: A. H. CURTIs, J. F. BRADSEAW. 

